Early morning, my father went to the riversearching for shining stones in the water—memories of my......

Snow-white, thick-sliced,rimmed by a light crust of rainbow ripples—the lilting bread melts in his mouthlike a......

The Ultimate Truth  I am in the tiger’s cage  And the tiger in mine  We were......

SilenceForgive me if so often to your silence,I know no reply but my own silence.I see......

He picked off the green moss from the wet brick,Slowly; carefully enjoying the simple texture.He remembered......

a man stood in the mostwell understood stance.Waiting – maybe.for someone? on someone? right palm perchedon......

I remember Agamemnonwhen we tied our horsesto a fig tree, peed a yellow streamalong its base.......

Say “home”—but never namethe village of your birth,ancestors purgedfrom its silent orchards. Say “once”—but not that......

After Amal Al Sahlawi Do not ask me to washmy skin of this dust, this gold,this......

Wrenched from sleepin sweat-stained sheets,hair unspooling a messof ribboned dreams— how cliché to writeof restless nights,heart......